by LeisaHammett | Oct 11, 2020 | Autism/Disability, COVID-19, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Obama/Politics, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging, Uncategorized
Sometimes things don’t work out when and how we want them to because they aren’t supposed to do so. Sometimes the solution reveals itself is down the road in time. The week Tennessee and most of the nation’s shut down, we went from three personal...
by LeisaHammett | Sep 27, 2020 | Art, Autism/Disability, COVID-19, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Obama/Politics, Spirituality, Technology/Blogging
Dear Devoted Readers, (all three of you)‚ I’ve thought of y’all. A lot. But. The seductive pull of quiet, going deeper. deeper. down. down. inward. inward. was stronger. My right brain, versus my chatty, left, writerly brain, has taken over the controls....
by LeisaHammett | Jul 12, 2020 | COVID-19, Divorce, Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Online Dating, Spirituality, Uncategorized
A bawdy artist friend posted on “the Facebook” about baring her untanned “excessive” belly flesh by donning in a sports bra and shorts for a stroll at the park and no longer giving an eff about the disapproving looks she received. It was the...
by LeisaHammett | Jul 5, 2020 | Grief & Loss, Midlife and Beyond, Obama/Politics, Spirituality
At the dawn of this holiday weekend, I received another of a sporadic series of videos and memes from an elder neighbor. I don’t know this spunky woman well and I assume no ill of her intent with her shares. But they are always diametrically opposed to my own...
by LeisaHammett | Jun 30, 2020 | COVID-19, Midlife and Beyond, Motherhood, Nature, Spirituality, Uncategorized
Pandemic salve, solace, and salvation have manifested in the form of forested park walks these last nearly four months. Hardly a day has passed without their denouement. Emotional fatigue, battles of the mind, of the heart, were almost always dissected in the cocoon...
by LeisaHammett | Jun 27, 2020 | COVID-19, Midlife and Beyond, Nature, Obama/Politics, Spirituality
These. Are candid words. They will be offensive to some. I speak my truth. Sometimes truth hurts. I was raised Southern Baptist. It wasn’t until working for the denomination, in my fifth communications position, that I saw true Christian love demonstrated and...
